My Sweet Orange Tree (Meu Pé de Laranja Lima)
Francaise title: Mon bel oranger
Spain title: Mi planta de Naranja Lima
Russian title: Мое любимое апельсиновое дерево
Original title: Meu Pé de Laranja Lima
Spain title: Mi planta de Naranja Lima
Russian title: Мое любимое апельсиновое дерево
Original title: Meu Pé de Laranja Lima
Alternative titles:
Mein kleiner Orangenbaum / Wenn ich einmal groß bin
Mein kleiner Orangenbaum / Wenn ich einmal groß bin
Child movie – Brazil
Production year: 1969
Movie length: 108 minutes
Production year: 1969
Movie length: 108 minutes
Director: Aurélio Teixeira
Writer: Aurélio Teixeira, Braz Chediak, José Mauro de Vasconcelos
Cinematograph: Hélio Silva
Music: Edino Kruger
Writer: Aurélio Teixeira, Braz Chediak, José Mauro de Vasconcelos
Cinematograph: Hélio Silva
Music: Edino Kruger
Movie description:
Zézé is a 6 year old with extraordinary liveliness and intelligence who lives with his parents, who are very poor, in a shack along a highway in the interior of San Pablo, Brazil. His older brothers have a private retreat in the garden, leaving Zézé alone with a lime tree. In his imagination, he makes the tree his great friend and confidant. With the help of his tree, he faces the difficulties of his family and of growing up.
Zézé, a precocious six-year-old born to a very poor family in the slums of Brazil, taught himself to read at that tender age and wants to grow up to be `a poet with a bow tie’. His intelligence is only matched by his penchant for mischief, and Zézé’s ingenious pranks, which includes making `snakes’ out of stockings to frighten adults with, will make you chuckle out loud. Beneath his naughtiness, however, is a child with a heart of gold. Zézé cares for plants and animals and the suffering of other people. He helps out his family by shining shoes, is saddened by the death of the family hen that was slaughtered for soup, shares the stuffed cruller that his pitying teacher bought him with a destitute little black girl who no one else plays with, steals flowers from rich folks’ gardens for his teacher and sings in the street to help a songbook salesman sell his wares. Poverty has taught young Zézé a lot, and when he cries upon seeing that he has received nothing for Christmas and has thus hurt his father’s feelings, he shines shoes for a few pennies to buy his father a box of cigarettes with. The title of the book comes from a small, sweet-orange tree growing in the garden of Zézé’s home. Feeling left out by his numerous brothers and sisters, the imaginative Zézé adopts the tree as a playmate. The plot grows when Zézé befriends the town millionaire, Portuga, and soon the two are inseparable. A tragedy occurs, and we follow the sorrowful and moving way Zézé deals with it.
Zézé, a precocious six-year-old born to a very poor family in the slums of Brazil, taught himself to read at that tender age and wants to grow up to be `a poet with a bow tie’. His intelligence is only matched by his penchant for mischief, and Zézé’s ingenious pranks, which includes making `snakes’ out of stockings to frighten adults with, will make you chuckle out loud. Beneath his naughtiness, however, is a child with a heart of gold. Zézé cares for plants and animals and the suffering of other people. He helps out his family by shining shoes, is saddened by the death of the family hen that was slaughtered for soup, shares the stuffed cruller that his pitying teacher bought him with a destitute little black girl who no one else plays with, steals flowers from rich folks’ gardens for his teacher and sings in the street to help a songbook salesman sell his wares. Poverty has taught young Zézé a lot, and when he cries upon seeing that he has received nothing for Christmas and has thus hurt his father’s feelings, he shines shoes for a few pennies to buy his father a box of cigarettes with. The title of the book comes from a small, sweet-orange tree growing in the garden of Zézé’s home. Feeling left out by his numerous brothers and sisters, the imaginative Zézé adopts the tree as a playmate. The plot grows when Zézé befriends the town millionaire, Portuga, and soon the two are inseparable. A tragedy occurs, and we follow the sorrowful and moving way Zézé deals with it.
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